Numbers 14

1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.● 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!● 3And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?● 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.● 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.● 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, {which were} of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:● 7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, {is} an exceeding good land.● 8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.● 9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they {are} bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD {is} with us: fear them not. {defence: Heb. shadow}● 10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.● 11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?● 12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.● 13And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear {it}, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)● 14And they will tell {it} to the inhabitants of this land: {for} they have heard that thou LORD {art} among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and {that} thy cloud standeth over them, and {that} thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.● 15Now {if} thou shalt kill {all} this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,● 16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.● 17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,● 18The LORD {is} longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing {the guilty}, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth {generation}.● 19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. {until...: or, hitherto}● 20And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:● 21But {as} truly {as} I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.● 22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;● 23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: {Surely...: Heb. If they see the land}● 24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.● 25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.● 26And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,● 27How long {shall I bear with} this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.● 28Say unto them, {As truly as} I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:● 29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,● 30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, {concerning} which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. {sware: Heb. lifted up my hand}● 31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.● 32But {as for} you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.● 33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. {wander: or, feed}● 34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, {even} forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, {even} forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. {breach...: or, altering of my purpose}● 35I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.● 36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,● 37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.● 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, {which were} of the men that went to search the land, lived {still}.● 39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.● 40And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we {be here}, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.● 41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.● 42Go not up, for the LORD {is} not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.● 43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites {are} there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.● 44But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.● 45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, {even} unto Hormah.●